Applied AI Engineer — Build End-to-End AI Systems

Goaly AI; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Complimentary lunch

Dinner provided and snacks

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

Goaly AI is seeking an exceptional early‑career engineer to join the technical team in Palo Alto. You will own meaningful AI problems end‑to‑end, from problem framing to production rollout, working directly with the founding team across model post‑training, RL environments, distributed systems, training or inference performance, backend services, APIs, SDKs, or developer tools.

This role is designed for recent graduates or engineers showing exceptional ability through OSS, projects, internships,

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s or master’s in CS, engineering, math, or related field — or equivalent ability demonstrated through your work.
• Typically 0–2 years of full‑time experience.
• Strong coding skills and CS fundamentals, with evidence from projects, research, internships, competitions, or shipped products.
• A track record of learning quickly, taking initiative, and delivering ambitious work with limited structure.
• Genuine curiosity about the AI frontier & Continuous learning — you track new models, research, tools, and applications.
• Grit, humility, and a willingness to work hard on high‑impact problems.

Responsibilities

• Build applied AI projects end-to-end — from problem framing and prototyping to evaluation, production rollout, and iteration.
• Create agentic systems and applications, including agent harnesses, tool use, workflows, memory, and multi‑step execution.
• Apply strong prompt, context, and loop engineering to make models more reliable and efficient on real‑world tasks.
• Track frontier models, research, and AI‑native developer tools; test what is useful and turn capabilities into product improvements.
• Design evaluations, datasets, and feedback loops to measure model and agent performance and guide iteration.
• Move across the stack from model APIs/inference to backend services and developer tooling.
• Use AI coding and development tools, while maintaining strong technical judgment and code quality.

Skills

CS/Engineering degree or equivalent

Strong coding skills

Fast learner

Curiosity about AI frontier

Grit and humility

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

OSS contributions

ML/LLMs

Distributed systems

GPUs

Compilers

Databases

Networking

Job description

Goaly AI is seeking an exceptional early‑career engineer to join the technical team in Palo Alto. You will own meaningful AI problems end‑to‑end, from problem framing to production rollout, working directly with the founding team across model post‑training, RL environments, distributed systems, training or inference performance, backend services, APIs, SDKs, or developer tools.

This role is designed for recent graduates or engineers showing exceptional ability through OSS, projects, internships,